Means for folding and wrapping newspapers and the like.



A. B. YOUNG. MEANS FOR FOLDING Am) WRAPPING NEWSPAPERS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 24, 1911.

1,071,853. en ed Sept. 2, 1913.

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APPLICATION FILED AUG 24, 1911. Lfiwyl fifi Patented Sept. 2, 1913,

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ALBERT EDWEB D YOUNG, 0F CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND.

' MEANS Eon FOLDING nun WRAPPING NEWSPAPERS AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

Application filed August 34, 1911. Serial No. 645,751.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT EDWARD YoUNo, a subject of'the King of Great Britain, residing at 134 Hereford street, Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury and Dominion of New Zealand, have invented new and useful Improvements in Means for Folding and Wrapping Newspapers and the Like, of which the following 'is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for use in newspaper ofiiees and the like for folding and wrapping newspapers, periodicals and other printed matter ready for mailing or delivery, its object being the provision of a machine. adapted to receive the papers as theycome from the press or folder and perform the above operation in a manner similar to that at present carried out by hand. v

In order that the nature of the invention and its construction may be fully under stood, reference will now be made to the ac companying sheet of drawings in which:--

Figure 1.-is a sectional elevation of the machine in which certain of the connecting portions and the drives have been'omitted for the sake of clearness. Fig. 2.-is a similar view of a portion of the machine showing on a somewhat enlarged scale the final wrapping operations, Fig. 3.-i s a detail view of one of the folding knives and the method of mounting same,- Fig. 4.-illustrates'a method of operating the knife shown in Fig. 3, Fig. 5.-shows a method of operating the cutting-off knife for the wrappers, Fig. 'Gr-ShOVVS ameans of actuating thefinal folding knife, Fig. 7.-illust'rates a a method of operating the fingers and table employed in holding the wrapped paper while the sealingof the Wrapper is effected. Fig. 8.-shows a means of operating the first folding device, and Fig. 9.illustrates a method of driving the feed roller for the wrappers. .Fig. 10 is a detail view of the 'carriage34 and the mechanism controlled thereby.

1 is a suitable framework having a hori* zontal table 2 adapted to receive the newspapers 3which have been previously folded in halves.

rollers 5, passes downward guided by the belts or tapes or the like means 6 and the shield or baffle 7, and is received in a vertieally inclined position by the clips or the like 8. Meanwhile the paper 9 which is designed to form the wrapper and is mounted in roll form upon the framework above, is fed down betweenthe face of the folded paper and a secondpair of rollers 10. A second knife 11 adapted to slide in a plane approximately at right angles to the surface of the paper 9, now comes into operation and forces the paper 3 and with it the wrapper 9 between the rollers 10 so as to fold such paper 3' uponitself for about a third of its height, while at the same time a shearing device savers the wrapper 9at the required length. According to the drawings the said shearing device comprises a knife 12-mounted upon a spindle 13 and adapted to operate in conjunction with a similar fixed knife 14, mounted upon the framework at the other side of the paper, so as to shear the paper between them, but

"obviously this object may be attained by the use of a illotine' or other known device. Thesaid folding knife 11 illustrated in Fig. 3 is cleft in the-middle for a distance approximating to the width of the wrapper 9 in order that in the event of the machinebeing' left running without receiving any newspapers, the'wrappers will not be caused to pass between the rollers but will simply drop clear of the'maohine as they are cut off.

After causing the newspaper to pass between the rollers 10, as above described the knife 11 carries such newspaper and its wrapper withthe short folded side of the paper uppermost, between the table 15 and the plate'lo', which is loosely suspended from the bracket 17 so that asthe paper and wrapper are passed beneath it, such plate will be forced upward slightly soas passes them downward between a pair of rollers 20, thus folding the remaining third upon the paper again while at the same time placing the portion of the wrapper, which was uppermost, within the last fold. Inorder to permit of this being done, the wrap per was cut with a suliicient length to "allow' of its being gripped by the knife 19.

' As the paper and wrapper were being Iorwarded by ,;he knife 11 to the position to receive the final fold, and again as they were passing between the rollers 20, as above described, the portion of the wrapper upon the underside received a smear of gum or paste from an endless band 21, runring around one of the rollers 20 and through a reservoir 22, so as to prepare such wrapper for sealing; The folded pa er and its wra per are delivered from t e rollers 20 vertically or-nearly so with the lower edge resting upon a' stop 23 and with the free end of the wrapper 9 projecting upward above the upper edge of the paper. In this position it is received by a series of fingers 24 which bear against the side of the paper at which the gummed portion of the wrapper is situated, while upon the other side is arranged a hinged flap 25 which depends from one of the rollers 20 or other convenient point upon the framework above and is adapted to exert aslight pressure against the wrapper so as to press the latter against the paper. For this purpose the said flap 25 may be arranged at a slight angle as shown so as to bear against the wrapper by means of gravity or it may be provided with a suitable spring. 3 The said stop 23 is rovided along its edge with a flange 23 w ich is spring controlled so that when -it receives the paper and wrapper as above described such flange will project upwardly. When however the paper is turned over by the fingers 24, such flange 23 will give under the pressure and assume a position with its upper edge flush with the .top of the stop 23, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The said fingers "24 are all keyed in line upon a suitable shaft 26 so that'when position to receive-the paper in the described manner, they willproject upwardly therefrom (as shown inFige 1). An interval is allowed between the fingers 24in the mid dle of the row to. permit of the hinged flap 25, passing between' them. Having'thus delivered the folded paper and wrapper upon the stop 23, the knife .19 is withdrawn.

As the paperiwas being passed downward from'the rollers-.20 it pressed against'a pro-v jection'27 mounted upon an upwardly pro- "jecting spring tongue 28 which gave sulficiently to allowthe paper to'pass' and then sprang back intoits normal position again so that the projection 27.1ocked. upon the upperedge of the paper and so prevented the latter frqmbeingcarried up by the knifeq 19 as it was withdrawn. The mounting of the spring tongue 28 upon the framework is adjustable so that the height of the proward the hinged flap 25 which is thereby forced to swing outwardly so as to permit of the paper and wrapper turning sufli- 'ciently to bring the gummed portion of the wrapper upward (as shown in Fig. 2). A

table 29, mounted upon and operated hyaspecial shaft 30, now comes into operation and presses the paper upward against the fingers 24 so as to hold the folded paper firmly together, as shown in full .lines Fig. 2. A shaft 31 is now causedto turn so that the cam 32 keyed upon it bears against the back of the flap 25 and forces the said flap back to its original position again. The lower edge of the flap 25 during the, latter opera- I tion carries the free end of the wrapper and wipes it across the gummedv portion as shown in dotted lines Fig. 2 thus effecting the sealing after which the table 29 is with drawn so permitting the wrapped paper tofall clear of the machine.

In cases where the machine is intended to wrap papers which have already been folded in quarters or if paper ofsmaller size or periodicals or other small matter, is to be wrapped the table 2, the knife 4 and rollers 5 may bedispensed with and the matter may be fed directly into, the clips 8 in readiness for the succeeding o eration.

The various parts are all actuate from a common shaft 33 and the movements are all so timed that each comes into operation at the required moment. In effecting this purpose, intermediate mechanism of well known types may be employed so as to pro vide each with a positive movement. As a selection of these may easily be made by anyv. one skilled in the mechanical arts, the fol-' lowing description is to be regarded as an .example rather than as confining the i,nvention, to the employment of such means.

The knife 11 (illustrated in Fig. 3) is mounted upon'a carriage 34 which is adapted to slide upon an inclined bed 35 pro vided upon the framework 1. The method of mounting the said knife 11 upon its carriage is adjustable inorder to permit of the knife being set so as to-come into operation at the required moment. According to the drawings such mounting consists of clamping the lateral projections of the knife 11 between nuts 34 screwed. upon the side rods 34 of the carriage 34, so that the setting of the knife may be adjusted by varying the positions of the nuts upon the rods.

. The movement of the carriage 34. is efrods 39 'by means of the rocking lever 41' actuate fected by means of a cam 36 which is keyed upon the commonshaft 33. The said cam 36 is formed with a continuous groove or race 7 extending around one of its lateral faces and adapted to receive a lug or roller 38 mountedupon the forward end of the carriage 34 (as clearly illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4). It will be understood therefore that as the'cam 36 is rotated it will cause the-carriage 34- to reciprocate upon its bed and the contour of the race is such as to effeet a quick return movement of the knife 11 "after the completion of its working stroke. As an alternative method of adjustin'g'the setting of the knife 11, for that described above, provision may be made for varying the position of the lug or roller 38 longitudinally upon the carriage 34.

The knife 19 is connected at the top to rods'39 shown in Fig. 6 adapted to work in slides 40'at either side of the framework 1, reciprocal motion being transmitted to such .fulcrumed upon the framework 1 at 42 and actuated by the pull and push cam 43,

keyed 'upon the shaft 33 (as shown in Fig. 6),

The method of operating the shaft 30 carrying the table 29and the shaft 26 carrying the fingers 24, is illustrated in Fig. 7

according to which the shaft 30 is provided with a crank 44 and the shaft 26' with the crank 45. These cranks are coupled together by a link 46 and are also connected by a. common link 47 to one end of a lever 48 which is fulcrumed upon the framework 1 at 49 and is operated in one direction by the cam- 50 bearing upon its other end, while the return movement of such lever isaccomplished by the spring 51 which impartsa downward tendency to the end at which the link 47 is connected (as shown in Fig.

7). a It will be understood that as the cam 5O depresses one end of the lever 48 its other '45 end will rise, thereby'causing the cranks to turn so as to bring the fingers 24 and table 29 together in the manner described.

Theknife 4 (see Fig. 8) is mounted upon a bell crank lever 52 which is fulcrumed upon the framework at 53 and connected to the end of the sliding rod 54.- The other end of the said rod 54 is adapted to bear against the periphery of the cam 55 keyed upon the shaft 33. It will be seen that while the lar e radius of the cam 55 is presented to it, t e rod 54 will be held upward thereby maintaining the knife in the upward position. When however the cam has turned so as to bring its smaller radius beneath therod, the latter will permit the knife 4 to descend by means of its own weight. The paper 9 forming the wrapper is fed down from the roll by means of the feed roller 56, an idler roller 57 (Fig. 1) mounted in slotted bearings being adapted to bear by means of its own wcightupon thejpaper :9 and so keep it in engagement with such feed roller 56. The said roller 56 (Fig. 8) is caused to revolve continuously by means of the shaft 58 which is connected at its lower end with the shaft 33 by means of bevel gearing 59 and at its upper end with the roller 56 by means of similar gearing 60. The rollers 5 are provided with the intermeshing gears 61 (Fig; l) 'and'rotary motion is transmltted to one of such rollers 5' from the roller 56 (Fig. 8) through the shaft 62 andbevel gears (Band 64. The knife spindle 13 (Fig. 5) is also operated from the roller 56 by means of the shaft 65' and bevel gears 66 and 67. The shaft 31 (Fig. 2) carryingthe cam 32 is provided. with a crank or arm 68 to which is connected the cord-or connection 69 (Figs. 3

and 10) the other end of-w'hich is secured," 'through the spring 70 to the carriage 34.s'o

that as the carriage 34vtravels -forward the cam 32 will operatethe flap-25 in-theman ner described. The return movement ofthe' shaft 31 is efl'ectedjby means'ofthe spring 71 connected to the'crank 68 and to a suit able point upon the framework 1'. Y

1. A machine for the purpose indicated; comprisin in combination, a suitable framewor a first air of folding rollers, a'second pair of fol ding rollers, means for feeding the newspaper into a. position in front of the first pair of rollers, means for feeding) the wrapperweb downward into sition pair of rollers, a'knife adapted to pass the newspaper and wrappembetweenmaid; first- .pair of rollers so as to fold such newspapler upon itself for about a third of its heig t, and to carry the news aper and wrapper on into a position over e second air of rollers in readiness for further fol ing, so that the newspaper will lie with its short folded side uppermost within the wrapper and with the ends of such wrapper extending beyond the upper and lower edges of such news paper, means'for severing the web as said newspaper passes between said first air of rollers, a second lmife adapted to esoend upon. the projecting upper edges of the wrapper, pass the newspaper and wrapper between said second pair of folding-rollers etween the newspaper and the rst' in such a manner as to fold the remaining I third upon such newspaper, andto carry newspaper and wrapper oninto a position for further treatment.

2. A machine for the purpose indicated comprising in combination asu'itable framework, means for folding the newspaper, a pair of folding rollers, means for feeding the folded newspaper thereto, means for feeding the wrapper web into position, a

knife adapted to pass the newspaper and wrapper between said rollers so as to fold "drawings. r

3. A machine for the purpose indicated,

such newspaper upon itself for about a most within the last said fold, a gumming' device adapted to come in contact with said wrapper so as to prepare it for sealing, a stop adapted to receive said folded newspaper upon edge as itpasses from the second pair of rollers, a series of fingers adapted to bearagainst one side of the newspaper and turn the latter over upon its side, a hinged flap adapted to bear against the wrapper at the opposite side and to wipe the free end of the wrapper across the gummed portion thereof so asto elfect the sealing when' the newspaper and wrapper are turned over, and a table adapted to'hold the newspaper upward against the fingers while the sealing is being performed, substantially as described and shown in the comprising, in combination, means for folding'an article within a wrap er with a portion of said wrapper projecting beyond the article to form a free end, means for applying gum to a'portion of said wrapper, a

wrapper after they have.

tenses- -stop for receiving said article from said imeans, an upwardly movable table, a shaft on which said table is mounted, a plurality of pivoted fingers adapted to press the wrapped article upon said table, a shaft 011-- Which said fingers are mounted,-means for simultaneously actuating said shafts whereby said table will move upwardly at the same time that said fingers move downwardly, and a hinged flap for wiping the free end of the wrapper across the gummed portion thereof.

4. A machine for the purpose indicated,

comprising, in combination, means for folding an article within a wrapper with a portion of said wrapper projecting beyond the article to form a free end, means for applying gum to a portion of said wrapper, a stop for receiving said article from said means, an upwardly movable table, a pill! rality of pivoted fingers adapted to press the wrapped article upon said table, a hinged flap for wiping the free end of the Wrapper across the gummed portion thereof, a sliding frame, ashaft, means controlled by said; sliding frame for rotating said shaft, and a cam mounted on said shaft and operatively engaging said hinged flap, whereby the latter will be actuated.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

' ALBERT EDWARD YOUNG. Witnesses:

PERoY RICHMOND CLIMICE, Cram CAnLYoN Coonnr. 

